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Borrowed Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 893min

One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later, the newspapers are full of the rape and murder of Lady Louise Paxton - and to his horror, Timariot realises that this was the woman he met just hours before her death. A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a series of bizarre events begin to convince Timariot that all is not what it seems. Against his better judgment, he is soon sucked into the tortuous complexity of the dead woman's life. But the closer Timariot gets to the truth, the more hideous and uncertain it seems to be. And far too late, he realises that anybody who uncovers it is unlikely to live.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Telfer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031367/bk_adbl_031367_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Summer Flambè: The Rachael O'Brien Chronicles, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 256min

With freshman year behind her, things look grim for Rachael O'Brien's summer back home in Canton, Ohio, where the chances of hooking up with her crush seem to fall between slim and none. As if "quality time" working in her father's restoration shop isn't tortuous enough, his ditzy, age-inappropriate aerobics-instructor girlfriend moves into their house and tries to bond. Just when things seem maxed-out weird, Rachael's traveling psychic mom and her newly befriended "partner" make a surprise visit, sending life into warp-speed wackadoo. Attempting to convince her estranged mother to return to her old life gets sidelined by the theft of an eccentric client's painting that unravels a guarded family secret and throws Rachael into the arms of a wanted man. Summer break ignites into an unexpected journey of personal discovery, heartache, and resiliency in Paisley Ray's Summer Flambé. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanne Cerreta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028932/bk_acx0_028932_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1956min

The second volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize - winning series The Story of Civilization. Volume 2 chronicles the history of ancient Greek civilization. Here Durant tells the whole story of Greece from the days of Crete's vast Aegean empire to the final extirpation of the last remnants of Greek liberty, crushed under the heel of an implacably forward-marching Rome. The dry minutiae of battles and sieges, of tortuous statecraft of tyrant and king, get minor emphasis in what is preeminently a vivid recreation of Greek culture, brought to the listener through the medium of supple, vigorous prose. In this masterful work, listeners will learn about: The siege of Troy The great city-states of Athens and Sparta The heroes of Homer's epics The gods and lesser deities of Mount Olympus The teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle The empire of Alexander the Great ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006027/bk_blak_006027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Eagle Ray , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 389min

Magic or mutation? Jamie Bonifacio lives between two worlds; the world of the terrestrial and the world of the aquatic. Whether the result of being cursed at birth by a Santeria Priestess, or the result of a radical genetic mutation, Jamie possesses the preternatural ability to dive to incredible depths, and stay at those depths for hours. How many hours? Even Jamie isn't sure. When, through no fault of his own, Jamie finds himself at odds with the law, he realizes that his only chance to remain free is to take refuge on and under the sea. Equipped with a 22 foot sailboat, sparse sailing skills, and an audacity possessed by few, Jamie will take flight toward the ancestral home that lies across the Caribbean Sea. What Jamie doesn't know is that before him lie 2,000 sea miles of hurricane winds, tortuous tropical sun, castaways and pirates. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Lawson, Emily Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094415/bk_acx0_094415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tonight You're Dead: Sandhamn Murders, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 614min

Soon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she's asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation. Marcus Nielsen, a university student, has apparently committed suicide, but it's what he's left behind that's so suspicious and damning: his research into the Coastal Rangers, an elite military group where, in 1977, a young cadet died under questionable circumstances, a sadistic sergeant went free, and a case went cold. When two of Nielsen's contacts are also found dead - and diaries of their tortuous training turn up missing - Thomas and Nora are certain that whatever happened three decades ago is unforgivable. And for someone who wants to keep those secrets buried - unforgettable. Now they must fight against time to expose a cover-up that hasn't yet claimed its last victim. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Dawe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009624/bk_brll_009624_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Edison's Frankenstein , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min

The complete, tortuous story of the 1910 film version of Frankenstein is narrated in this 100th-anniversary edition. Everything you ever wanted to know about the classic first Frankenstein film and then some. This highly researched document begins in the dusty archives of Thomas A. Edison and follows a trail of evidence that leads through the tattered pages of pre-Hollywood film history. The story unfolds from the making of the film and its disappearance on to the actual rediscovery of the long-lost 1910 Frankenstein film starring Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips, and Mary Fuller, and finally getting it released on DVD. Helped step-by-step with obscure Edison Manufacturing Co. documents and numerous rare photographs, many published for the very first time, this motion picture, its unknown impact on later Frankenstein films, and intertextuality are finally revealed and brought back to life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Bronzi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014060/bk_acx0_014060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Night Falls on Ardnamurchan (eBook, ePUB)

Since its first publication in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with extracts from his father's journal - a terse, factual and down to earth vision of the day-to-day tasks of crofting life.It is an unusual and memorable story that also illuminates the shifting, often tortuous relationships between children and their parents. Alasdair Maclean reveals his own struggle to come to terms with his background and the isolated community he left so often and to which he returned again and again. In this isolated community is seen a microcosm of something central to Scottish identity - the need to escape against the tug of home.This is a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with extracts from his father's journal - a terse, factual and down to earth vision of the day-to-day tasks of crofting life.

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Better Mousetraps: The Best Mystery Stories of John Lutz , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min

Thirty-five short stories by Edgar-winning novelist Lutz are included here, following a perceptive introduction by Nevins. Reflecting the ingenious plotting and characterizations in Tropical Heat, Nightlines and the author's other full-length adventures, these entries are a bonanza for discriminating listeners. The first section contains tales of tortuous suspense, notably “High Stakes” about a man forced by thugs onto a six-inch ledge outside a hotel room 12 stories above the pavement. Every second of his vertiginous ordeal, trying to open a locked window, causes palpitations for the listener. In the second section, Lutz spikes the menace with sophisticated comedy. “Understanding Electricity” is a delicious tale of a customer “overcharged” by a power company and scheming for revenge. He accomplishes this with a power outage and a literal shock. (“Watt now?” the office secretary asks herself as her electric typewriter dies.) Nevins appends a checklist of the author's publications. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006501/bk_acx0_006501_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Husband's Regret: Unwanted, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min

Tall and thin, twenty-eight-year-old Bronwyn Palmer has become positively gaunt, a ghost of her former self. That self was - and still is - the wife of a rich, handsome executive with an ocean-view house and his own security staff. It was in that house, two years ago, that Bryce Palmer learned Bronwyn was pregnant with their first child. But Bryce’s rage over his impending fatherhood touched off a chain reaction of emotional and physical traumas that wounded them both. For Bronwyn, it meant fleeing the perfect marriage to start over with nothing but a precocious daughter named Kayla to care for. For Bryce, it meant a tortuous two years spent blaming his wife for deserting him, and living with the pain of not knowing his child. Now a chance encounter has brought Bronwyn back into Bryce’s life, both bearing scars...and neither knowing the whole truth of that fateful night that drove them apart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006022/bk_brll_006022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Billy Liar , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min

For William ‘Billy’ Fisher, an energetic imagination makes life tolerable, but well-nigh intolerable for all around him. He lies his way into and out of every situation, making any promise to get him out of trouble, thereby creating ever more tortuous entanglements to be wriggled out of in the future. Billy dreams of escaping the dull drudgery of his life at home with his parents and grandmother in the monotony of his stifling Yorkshire hometown. He has three fiancées and a truly dead-end job as an undertaker’s clerk, but dreams of becoming a writer for a comedian and escaping his everyday life. Unable to separate fantasy from reality, Billy becomes embroiled in a mess no lie will eradicate; the web of lies will bring many a chuckle to listeners, but will the outcome of his mistruths be quite as funny to Billy? Quasi-comic, this novel has enjoyed many interpretations, as a film, play, musical, TV series and now, an unabridged audiobook. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Simm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/csaw/000211/bk_csaw_000211_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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